Adding Windows 7 to the Platforms report

Yes, Windows 7 is here.  Sort of.  Under the covers, it’s actually Windows NT 6.1.

You can get your Platforms report to show Windows 7 traffic by downloading and installing the newest browsers.ini and keywords.ini files, with the Browsers.ini And Keywords.ini Updater (can we come up with a shorter name?  BKU?) which is here.  The updater requires version 8.1 or newer.

If you have an earlier version, you can manually update the browsers.ini file, as follows:

Step 1.  Find the browsers.ini file(s)

There are usually three or four copies of the file browsers.ini on the typical WebTrends installation, and there could be extra copies on other servers if you use distributed architecture. You’ll need to change all of them.  Typical locations are:

/WebTrends/modules/analysis/engine/8.0d (8.1, 8.5, etc)
/WebTrends/storage/config/component/lookupdata/
/WebTrends/storage/config/engine/8.0d (8.1, 8.5, etc)
/WebTrends/

Open one instance of browsers.ini with a proper text editor. By “proper” we mean something like TextPad as opposed to Notepad, because Notepad doesn’t play well with the system when the file is in use. With TextPad, you can [usually] take the risk of changing the file while WebTrends is running.

Step 2.  Change the Platforms list.

Find the [Platforms] section and go to the end of the [Platforms] list. Find the last numbered entry. Add an entry like this (the number may be different for your version of the file):

Platform56=WIN_7

Step 3 – Add the [Platforms] section specifications. 

Go to the top of the [Platforms] specification list (groups of three or four lines).  (I have no idea why Platforms is in reverse order from Browsers and the most recent ones are at the top instead of the bottom.  Maybe order doesn’t matter as long as the main list is numbered.)  Anyway, add a blank line and then this:

[WIN_7]
log1=WINDOWS NT 6.1
text=Windows 7

Step 4.  Save and close the browsers.ini file.

Step 5.  Copy the file to all locations where there’s a browsers.ini.

Step 6.    Restart your Scheduler Service

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